The interesting part about your question is the complete lack of background on why you would possibly need all this storage.
So I'll make a guess. 10^12--10^15 bytes is a large range. And I can only think of a few ways to generate that much data. The most probable is video cameras, but I can't think of any reason why you would need it secure in that fashion.
Secure without human intervention is interesting. I mean, if all you want is security, the easy way is distributed networks and encryption. And really, that would be more secure in the event of nuclear war or other similar events.
So I have two guesses:
A) Given the similarity of your numbers to the 10^11 neurons in the human brain (and each neuron has as many as 1000 connections to its neighbors) this is some sort of screwy immortality thought experiment.
B) Given the security requirements, this is some screwy thought experiment involving the preservation of the sum of human knowledge over a vast stretch of time without human presence. That could be interstellar travel, say, or large disasters wiping out the human race.
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The interesting part about your question is the complete lack of background on why you would possibly need all this storage.
So I'll make a guess. 10^12--10^15 bytes is a large range. And I can only think of a few ways to generate that much data. The most probable is video cameras, but I can't think of any reason why you would need it secure in that fashion.
Secure without human intervention is interesting. I mean, if all you want is security, the easy way is distributed networks and encryption. And really, that would be more secure in the event of nuclear war or other similar events.
So I have two guesses:
A) Given the similarity of your numbers to the 10^11 neurons in the human brain (and each neuron has as many as 1000 connections to its neighbors) this is some sort of screwy immortality thought experiment.
B) Given the security requirements, this is some screwy thought experiment involving the preservation of the sum of human knowledge over a vast stretch of time without human presence. That could be interstellar travel, say, or large disasters wiping out the human race.